Improved parlor cooking-stove



J. GOSS.

Pa rlor Cooking Stove.

Patented Sept. 27, 1864.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN GOSS, OF LEWISTON, MAINE.

IMPROVED PARLOR COOKING-STOVE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 44,4 19, dated September 27, 1864.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN Goss, a resident of Lewiston, in the county of Androscoggin and State of Maine, have invented an improved Stove to be used for Cooking Food and for Warming an Apartment; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a longitudinal and vertical section, and Fig. 2 a transverse section, of it.

In the stove in question, the fire-place A is situated at the upper part of the stove, the oven 0 being underneath the ash-chamber B of the said fire-place. There is a flue, D, which leads from the fire-plat e down in front of it and the oven and into a chamber or flue, E, arranged underneath the bottom of the oven. There is also a flue, F, leading out of the chamber or flue E and going up alongside of the ovtn and terminating at the top of the fire-pot a, where it is covered, as shown at b, the s tid cover being furnished with an opening, 0, having a damper or valve, d. From the said damper a curved arm, 0, extends through an opening in the side of the stove-bcdy N. By means of this arm the damper may be raised or lowered. Near the upper part of the flue F a pipe or passage, G, leads laterally out of the flue, and through it the smoke is to escape into a chimney.

The doors for the oven and fire-place are shown at H and I as applied to openings at one end of the fireplace and one end of the oven. Between the ash-chamber and the fireplace is a grate, K. Furthermore, there is an opening, L, made through the bottom of the ash-chamber and leading into the oven, there being applied to such opening aclosing slide or gate, M, having an arm, f, extending through an opening made in the end of the stove case or body N. By means of such arm the gate M maybe moved either on or off the opening L.

The top plate, 9, of the stove is provided with a boiler-plate, 0, having openings for supporting kettles or pots over the fire-place. There is also an ornamental or perforated cover, P, hinged to the top plate, 9. This cover is intended to close down over the plate 0 and the covers of its boiler-openings, so as to exclude them from sight at such times as it may be desirable to do so.

1n the operation of this stove the smoke and gases from the fire-place pass into the flue D and down the same against one side of the oven, thence underneath the oven, thence up the flue F, and thence out of the stove by the passage G. The upper plate or top of the oven is heated by radiation from the grate.

Whenever it may not be desirable to cause the smoke to go around the oven, the damper is to be raised so as to open the passage 0, in which case the smoke will cross the flue F and pass directly into the escape-passage G.

The objects of the opening L and its closing-valve M are twofold-via, not only to supply the fuel with air from and heated by the oven, but to enable a person to remove ashes from the ash-chamber by placing a pan or vessel within the oven and raking the ashes through the Opening L into such pan, while the oven-door may be closed. By keeping the oven-door closed while the operation may be carried on, no ashes can escape into the room or apartment in which the stove may be.

By means of the opening L the waste heat of the oven may be employed to heat the air used to maintain combustion of the fuel of the fire-place. The opening L audits valve also affords a means of discharging into the fire the vapors and gases produced within the oven.

1 do not claim either the fire-place, ashchamber, oven, or the flue leading alongside of the oven and directly underneath it, as described.

I claim- In the construction of my stove, the arran gement of the fire-place, ash-chamber, oven, and fines, as described, in combination with the passage L and its closing valve or gate M, applied directly to the bottom of the ashchamber and top of the oven, suastantially as and for the objects or purposes as hereinbefore specified.

JOHN GOSS.

Witnesses:

R. M. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

